Device for facilitating the turning of pages.



11\'Io.7'72,194. PATENTED 00T. ll, 1904. J. VICKERY.

DEVICE FOR FAGILITATING THE TURNING OP PAGES. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4. 1904.

UNITED STATES Patented october 11, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN VIOKERY, OF NET YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 772,194, dated October 11, 1904.

Application filed January 4:, 1904;. Serial No. 187,617.` (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

described are more e'ectually separated from Be it known that I, JOHN VICKERY, a citizen each other. of the United States, and a resident of the city a a a2 are rods (composed, preferably, of of New York, county of Queens, and State of wire) movably secured to B, as by eyes CZ dl New York, have invented certain new andusecl2, respectively, through which B passes 55 ful Improvements in Devices for Facilitating' loosely. The rods a a a2 are thus prevented the Turning of Pages, of which the following at all times from being separated from A, but is aspecification, referencebeing had to the acin such a way as to insure capacity for excornpanying drawings, in whichw tended movement in a multitude of directions IO Figure l is an elevation; Fig. 2, a detail in relatively to the latter. a a a2 are further 60 section, taken on the line fr; of Fig. 1, seen in restricted as regards their capacity for movethe direction of the arrow. Fig. 3 is another ment relatively to A by passing loosely bcdetail, also in section on the line g/ y of Fig. 1, tween the latter and the lower holding device seen in the direction of the arrow. C when latter is normally closed, as shown in I5 My invention is particularly applicable to Fig. 3. To each rod-af, for instanceare 65 facilitating the turning of pages of sheetrigidly secured a plurality (two as shown) of music, though it might also ,beotherwise emfingers I; o, angularly disposed thereto and in ployed, and I have accordingly shown it in the same plane with each other. To each rod, the drawings as combined with an ordinary respectively, is also rigidly secured a manip- 2O well-known music-stand adapted to support ulating-lever g g g2, likewise angularly se- 7o before amusician printed sheet-music in a pocured relatively to said rod and in the same sition 4properly displayed for reading. plane substantially as the aforesaid fingers of A represents the desk or supporting-board the rod in question The construction deof a music-stand, the usual support of which scribed admits of rotary movement by each is indicated in part by A', extending to the rod approximately around its central longi- 75 v` floor, where it is supported by a foot in the tudinal axis through an arc of approximately usual way, or the desk A may rest directly one hundred and eighty degrees, also some upon the ordinary desk -of a piano, for intransverse movement by each rod relatively stance. to stand A and neighboring rods,. and also,

B is an upper holding device, consisting in when holding device O is opened, of move- 30 this instance of-a fixed staple B, iixedly secured ment by each rod in planes angularly disto A in any convenient manner. posed relatively to that of the surface of the C is a lower holding device, likewise sestand A. cured to A, but adapted to be opened or The operation of the device is as follows:

closed as required, said lower holding device To insert and hold the sheets of music, hold- 85 consisting in this instance of bolts m m', coning device O is opened and the rods raised or nected by a movable bar-m2, hinged at one partially rotated around staple B until the end to one of said bolts, m', and securable to face of the desk is cleared of the rods. The the other bolt, m, by a thumb-screw m3 passsheet-music is then laid upon the desk in the 40 ing through m2 and engaging in acorrespondusual way, so as to be supported thereby. 90 ingly-threaded recess in m; but it will be un- The leaves are new successively separated derstood that any other convenient means and a rod brought down to normal position might be employed for imparting to the lower (shown in Fig. 1) between each pair of holding device capacity for opening when releaves. After all the rods are thus placed bequired and being secured in place when closed tween the leaves or pages of the music the 95 in normal position, as shown in Fig. 3. It holder C is closed a l fastened. A pair of will also be observed that the bar m2 is preffingers c Z) is thus p aced between adjacent erablyfso shaped, as shown in Fig. 3, as to leaves. vWhen it is desired to turna leaf, the present on its inner side a plurality of circumusician applies a iinger to the appropriate lar openings, whereby the rods hereinafter lever-g2, for instance-and pushes it through 100 the arc described. Such lever acting on the rod rotates and moves the latter, Which correspondingly aotuates the lingers o2 b2 to bear upon the leaf and turn it over. l

It Will be understood that the various fastenings described might be indefinitely varied in details of construction Without departing from my invention, also that the number of rods employed may be indeiinitely multiplied. It Will also be observed that by means of my devices the pages of music or other printed mattei' may be readily separated and turned Without being actually handled by the operator, and this by a single and invariably certain movement of the linger, which is a great convenience, particularly to musicians, Whose hands should be as little interfered with as possible in the manipulation of their instruments and to Whom the turning of pages when required proves often an obstacle to successful performance of the music, owing to the distance which the hand is required to travel and the tendency of the sheets to adhere undesirably to each other.

supporting member.

' JOHN VICKERY.

lVitnesses:

PHILIP G. PECK, G. G..MEAsUREs. 

